Wednesday, October 15, 2014

This is interesting because it's LGBT related, it's pop culture related, it's artistic, and it's sort of historical. A 24 year old artist has combined several mediums to gain one grand artistic result.

With the use of intricate, colorful embroidery and images of hot male icons from retro zines of the last century he's taken the ordinary and turned it into something extraordinary. I love it.

In this link, he granted an interview about what he does and what he's trying to achieve. There are images of his work you really should check out. It's not like anything you've seen before.

How did you get started doing embroidery? What does that medium represent or symbolize for you?
I learned to embroider while taking a general textiles class in college.
The time spent on it was minimal but I became completely obsessed with
the medium -- its intricacy, delicacy, beauty. Historically, embroidery
has represented class, taste, worldly exposure and identity of its owner
or commissioner. As I taught myself how to embroider over the years (on
paper instead of fabric) the less obvious violent and physical nature
of the process became very clear to me. Not only was the thread
decorating a substrate with every stitch, its instrument was also
puncturing and affecting the surface, creating holes in the paper and
the image mounted to it. This physicality directed my focus toward the
degenerative nature of continually re-forming identity. Its decorative
function informed the expansive side of this process.

His Meat in Her Mouth

I don't post much about feminism or women's rights here on the blog because I don't feel it's the right thing for me to do. I follow everything that's happening, but as a gay man I can't understand how women feel, think, or even assume. And even though so many people who aren't gay do this with gay men (they call us queer and don't even realize how that word makes many of us feel...it's like the word "bitch"...gay misogyny), I don't want to be guilty of that same crime. So I remain silent.

But just yesterday I was having a discussion with a straight male friend about the possible misogyny in the new film Girl Gone, starring Ben Affleck, Mr. Straight White Liberal Male. I haven't seen the film and neither did my friend, but we were discussing how various reviewers were dealing with misogyny and rape culture...and whether they should be topics of discussion with a film at all. I won't go into detail about that now but let's just say I disagreed with my straight white male friend because I see so much misogyny on a weekly basis it's often worse than the passive aggressive homophobia I see (when they call me queer). And this next article to which I'm linking is really a perfect example.

I have a love/hate relationship with stories like this. I hate that they happen, but I love the outcry of support. In a supermarket in the UK two gay women were thrown out for kissing in the store. According to this source, it wasn't even a hot kiss...just a peck and a security guard kicked them both out.

And this is what happened next:

Angry shoppers are taking a stand after a UK supermarket told a lesbian couple to stop kissing on Coming Out Day.

In response, they will be holding a mass kiss-in in the very same branch of Sainsbury's where a chaste kiss was branded 'inappropriate' by a security guard.

You can read it all here. The women were stunned and could not believe this had happened. The store did apologize and it offered a donation to the charity of their choice, but evidently that's not going to be enough.

I might have thought this was extreme five or six years ago. But now I'm starting to think it's necessary so nothing like that ever happens again (so they stop calling me queer). Now if we can only figure out a way to go after them with passive aggressive homophobia we'd be on a real mission. Intellectually, we (most of us who can think) know what happened to these women was wrong, but with passive aggressive homophobia we don't always pick it up the way we should...like when straight guys praise the gays but make it clear they aren't gay themselves because, you know, that would be weird.

Cover Reveal For Newest Book

I don't have links yet, but here's the newest cover for my next book. It's a short story, it's .99, it's only being released in digital format through Ryan Field Press, and it's a gay story about gay men in a gay situation. I'll post more as I get the information from my tech guy. It's not an actual romance like many of my other books and I like to make that distinction. But it is uplifting, highly erotic, and it does have a happy ending.

In
response, they will be holding a mass kiss-in in the very same branch
of Sainsbury's where a chaste kiss was branded 'inappropriate' by a
security guard. - See more at:
http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/uk-supermarket-threw-out-lesbian-couple-kissing-will-now-be-venue-mass-gay-kiss141014#sthash.hsj4A8vb.dpuf

Second Chance: The Complete Series

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Hybrid author of over 100 published modern romance novels and stories, including AN OFFICER AND HIS GENTLEMAN, FANGSTERS, THE RAINBOW DETECTIVE AGENCY and best selling VIRGIN BILLIONAIRE SERIES. (The profile photo isn't very good, but it's really me and it's recent from 2017. I'm not supposed to be a photographer. )
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Second Chance: His Only Choice

Second Chance: The Sweetest Apple

Cowboy Christmas Miracle Glendora Hill Series

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Book 2 Second Chance Series

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Bad Boy Billionaire: The Actor Learning to Love

I won't give out any spoilers, but this is the first time I've ever worked the attacks on the World Trade Center into a novel (you can see the twin towers in the background on the cover)...it's also the first time I've ever written a strong lesbian theme into the subplot.

The Women Who Love to Love Gay Romance

An Anthology with Ryan Field Press, release date August 30, 2013...links to follow soon.

Fangsters: Clan of the Jersey Boys

At a glance, Anton Pagano looks and sounds just like any other twenty-something. He lives in a mansion in northern New Jersey with his mom and dad, and he's never had to worry about anything other than his wardrobe, his latest new car, and the secret love affair he's been having for years. However, Anton has more than just the love affair to hide: he belongs to a Sicilian vampire mobster clan that migrated to New Jersey in the late 1800s.

The Wall Street Shark

Third installment of the Bad Boy Billionaire series.

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That Cowboy in the Window

Erotic Gay Romance with a twist.

Chase of a Dream

In this 59,000 word unabridged version of the sequel to "Chase of a Lifetime" that contains all of the original erotic scenes, Jim Darling finally finds the happiness he's been chasing for so long. He and Len Mayfield have settled into a quiet routine in their small newly renovated home in the Hollywood Hills, and they enjoy every minute they spend together raising Len's toddler grandson, Culum Mayfied.

An Officer and His Gentleman

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Pretty Man

Unlike most stories, where the rich and powerful husband dumps the hard working, devoted life partner for someone younger, this one takes a turn in the opposite direction when the rich husband is the one to get dumped. But with young Josh's help, Roland learns in less than a week's time that his future can still hold both earth-shattering sex and a love of real substance.

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